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Coincidentally, I'm working on something similar now. It's a 100 page paperback book, with illustrations and text, on facing pages. The pages are yellowed, so

Coincidentally, I'm working on something similar now. It's a 100 page paperback book, with illustrations and text, on facing pages. The pages are yellowed, so it's not an option simply scan to PDF - they'll need to be cleaned up. I'm undecided about the PDF version, but creating an EPUB is quite interesting: - Scanned each page with a regular scanner, and cleaned up the illustrations in Gimp - OCR'd the text using my iPhone (surprisingly quick and easy) - Identified the typefaces using MyFonts WhatTheFont tool (https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont) - Created one long HTML page containing all the text, properly formatted with headings, italics, etc. - Imported the HTML and graphics into Sigil, splitting it into separate pages (https://sigil-ebook.com/sigil/ https://sigil-ebook.com/sigil/) - Exported the EPUB from Sigil Sigil's UI is slightly daunting at first, but it provides total control over the markup. There are commercial alternatives which are easier to use - Jutoh is highly regarded (https://www.jutoh.com/ https://www.jutoh.com/)

ThinkBeat 4y ago
Hey thank you. I will check out Sigil I did not know about it. It will be fun to try and match the font
pvaldes 4y ago
> It's a 100 page paperback book, with illustrations and text, on facing pages. The pages are yellowed, so it's not an option simply scan to PDF - they'll need to be cleaned up. If is a repetitive task it looks more like a job to automatize on imagemagick. Gimp can do it also with plugins, but I would meditate first about imagemagick instead to repeat the same sequence of commands 100 times on Gimp. Then use a quick script on Perl or your preferred language of choice for writing the main part of the tex file for you. Something like this on pseudocode: open file output print $output "lines of preamble"; for each $file in directory "pagesofbook" {print output.tex "\begin{figure}\includegraphics{$file}\end{figure};\n;} print output.tex "\end{document}"; close output.tex; then fine-tune the texfile

ThinkBeat 4y ago

Hey thank you. I will check out Sigil I did not know about it. It will be fun to try and match the font

pvaldes 4y ago

> It's a 100 page paperback book, with illustrations and text, on facing pages. The pages are yellowed, so it's not an option simply scan to PDF - they'll need to be cleaned up. If is a repetitive task it looks more like a job to automatize on imagemagick. Gimp can do it also with plugins, but I would meditate first about imagemagick instead to repeat the same sequence of commands 100 times on Gimp. Then use a quick script on Perl or your preferred language of choice for writing the main part of the tex file for you. Something like this on pseudocode: open file output print $output "lines of preamble"; for each $file in directory "pagesofbook" {print output.tex "\begin{figure}\includegraphics{$file}\end{figure};\n;} print output.tex "\end{document}"; close output.tex; then fine-tune the texfile